Davidoff Cigar with Wine Cask-Aged Tobacco Now In Stores
A Davidoff cigar designed for wine lovers is now in retail shops. Called Davidoff Grand Cru Diademas Finas, the limited-edition smoke contains filler tobacco that was aged for six months in a Premier Grand Cru Classé red wine cask.
Rolled with a Connecticut-seed wrapper from Ecuador, a Dominican binder and three different Dominican filler tobaccos, the Davidoff Grand Cru Diademas Finas measures 6 3/4 inches by 50 ring gauge and comes in a double-tapered figurado format. Unlike regular production Grand Cru cigars, the limited-edition Diademas Finas has cask-aged Dominican San Vicente filler in its blend.
The cask-aged filler is meant to give the cigar a fruity character reminiscent of a fine Bordeaux wine. Davidoff says that the Grand Cru Diademas Finas starts with notes of citrus, pepper and roasted nuts before developing aromas of dark cherries, oak wood and earth. As the cigar burns, touches of walnut, fresh spice and vanilla emerge.
While the Grand Cru Diademas Finas can be enjoyed on its own, Davidoff says it pairs particularly well with a French red wine.
The cigar’s roots date back to 1946, when brand founder Zino Davidoff first created a cigar line inspired by winemaking.
Today, Davidoff continues to innovate with its cigar blends, cultivating 15 different terroirs in the Dominican Republic. These unique growing regions produce tobaccos with sophisticated flavor profiles that form the framework of many modern Davidoff cigars.
Grand Cru Diademas Finas marks the fourth and final entry in Davidoff’s “Cigar History Re-rolled” series, which resurrects discontinued cigars from its White Band lines and brings them back to life for limited-edition runs. Previous cigars included the Aniversario No. 1.
For its final release, Davidoff put a twist on the concept: A new size and blend for the Grand Cru line, made in a vitola that’s historically significant to the company. Grand Cru Diademas Finas shares the same size dimensions as the Davidoff Diademas Finas, a limited-edition cigar launched in 2006 to honor the birthday of Zino Davidoff. The figurado returned for another limited-edition run in 2018 to celebrate 50 years of Davidoff White Band cigars.
Davidoff Grand Cru Diademas Finas ships in 10-count wooden boxes and has a suggested retail price of $57 per cigar. Only 4,050 boxes are available in the U.S. market. The cigars are rolled at the Cigars Davidoff factory in the Dominican Republic.
